The evidentiary portion of the Alberta Energy Regulatorhearing on applications for Prosper Petroleum Ltd.’s proposed Rigel SAGD oilsands project northwest of Fort McMurray is scheduled to continue until Jan. 19, 2018. The hearing will reconvene for final arguments at a later date and the hearing panel will release its decision on the project applications within 90 days...

The Alberta Energy Regulator is expected to release a decision within six months on privately-held Prosper Petroleum Ltd.’s Rigel oilsands project following a public hearing, which was expected to conclude today, says the company. First production on Prosper’s flagship project is anticipated in 2020 from the 10,000 bbl/d bitumen SAGD project, 100 kilometres northwest of...

JAN. 5, 2018 – VIEW ISSUE The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) will hold a public hearing Jan. 9, 2018, on applications from Prosper Petroleum Ltd. associated with the construction and operation of a steam-assisted gravity drainage oilsands project about 64 kilometres northwest of Fort McKay. The hearing, to begin at 9 a.m. at Shell Place on MacDonald Island, had been...

OCT. 5, 2017 – VIEW ISSUE The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) will hold a public hearing for Prosper Petroleum Limited’s Rigel oilsands project, a proposed bitumen recovery scheme that would use SAGD to produce a maximum of 10,000 bbls of bitumen per day from the Wabiskaw Member. The bitumen would be recovered from Prosper’s leases in Sections 20 and 21 of Township 96,...

BY LYNDA HARRISON – APRIL 1, 2014 – VIEW ISSUE The Alberta Energy Regulator has set a date of May 1 to begin a written hearing on the Fort McKay First Nation and Fort McKay Metis Community Association’s appeal to confirm, vary, suspend or revoke the regulator’s decision to issue 16 well licences to Prosper Petroleum Ltd. The disputed licences are for oilsands exploration...